I accepted Sharp's offer for you eagerly.
Ever yours T.B.M.
To Hannah M.Macaulay.
London: January 2, 1834.
My dear Sister,--I am busy with an article for Napier.

[The first article on Lord Chatham.] I cannot in the least tell at present whether I shall like it or not.

I proceed with great ease; and in general I have found that the success of my writings has been in proportion to the ease with which they have been written.
I had a most extraordinary scene with Lady Holland.

If she had been as young and handsome as she was thirty years ago, she would have turned my head.

She was quite hysterical about my going; paid me such compliments as I cannot repeat; cried; raved; called me dear, dear Macaulay.